Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment /
Patricia Hill Collins
- New York : Routledge, 2008
- xvii, 357 p. ; 22 cm.
- Routledge classics .
Originally published in 1990 ; first published in Routledge Classics, 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
The politics of Black feminist thought -- Distinguishing features of Black feminist thought -- Work, family, and Black women's oppression -- Mammies, matriarchs, and other controlling images -- The power of self-definition -- The sexual politics of black womanhood -- Black women's love relationships -- Black women and motherhood -- Rethinking Black women's activism -- U.S. Black feminism in transnational context -- Black feminist epistemology -- Toward a politics of empowerment